Posted by bark2323 on March 8, 2004, at 13:25:54
In reply to Re: bipolar or not (long) » bark2323, posted by B2chica on March 7, 2004, at 17:12:27
This is becoming very intriguing. Luckily I'm not in my psychic/'everything is a sign!' type mode too heavily or else these coincidances would be too much.
Anyways, I really liked that quote. And I agree with the label thing, in fact sometimes I end up doing it to myself. Cant really comment on hospitalization, as Ive only experienced it twice, but it wasnt really scary to me (although definitely not my choice of places to be).
Now as for overanalyzing, that is yet something else I can identify with. Especially when it comes to someone's response to something I said/did. Like right now Im thinking that youre thinking Im lying about all these similarities, and now I am thinking that you are thinking I said that to specifically make you think I am not, which means next you will think I knew that would happen so I did it just to throw you off, etc. I once had a friend like this and there were times when we literally couldnt talk to each other since we could not stop reading into even the most simple statements we made, especially since we knew we were both of this mindset. We thought we knew the last thing in the other person's mind would be from the very beginning of a conversation. We ended up having to twist what we would naturally say into something else so the other person would analyze that statement into what we really meant. We had to take a break from the friendship in order to make this stop, even though we knew we were doing it. Dont know why I talked so much about that, just a strange thing. Sorry if it doesnt make any sense, and I know it diverged from the type of over-analyzing you mention, but if you know what I mean, you know how annoying it can be. One half of yourself is always hopelessly watching the other half.
I am sorry you are feeling down lately. I know that is such a stock response, but I really do hope it gets better soon. Talking on here is helping me to feel some closeness, and though I am not depressed right now, hopefully you feel that too, so I guess my point is keep talking to someone, anyone! I feel like Ive really not said what I started out to and missed responding to something key, but my mind is kind of jumpy today, so sorry about that.
matt
PS- I gotta ask, what time is your appt wed? Mine 3:15 or 3:30.
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